Heat goes on: Earth headed for warmest year on record
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Just in case it was not explicitly clear, Fraud is completely and utterly irrelevant.
I think your last hypothesis is the right one. Demand growth for oil is slowing, the tech to extract it has improved dramatically, so the price must fall. So the Saudis will continue to pump to simply make all the sales they can.
US producers, the ones still profitable at $45 (stay tuned), are doing the same.
- A carbon tax is the most efficient means to instill crucial price signals that spur carbon-reducing investment. View our spreadsheet to see how fast emissions will fall at different tax levels. A carbon tax will raise fossil fuel prices — that's the point.
- Carbon Tax Center – Pricing carbon efficiently and equitably
www.carbontax.org/
Carbon taxes offer a potentially cost-effective means of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.[6] From an economic perspective, carbon taxes are a type of Pigovian tax.[7] They help to address the problem of emitters of greenhouse gases not facing the full (social) costs of their actions. Carbon taxes can be a regressive tax, in that they may directly or indirectly affect low-income groups disproportionately . The regressive impact of carbon taxes could be addressed by using tax revenues to favour low-income groups.[8] However, there are about USD $550 billion in fossil fuel subsidiesannually worldwide.[9]
A number of countries have implemented carbon taxes or energy taxes that are related to carbon content.[10] Most environmentally related taxes with implications for greenhouse gas emissions in OECD countries are levied on energy products and motor vehicles, rather than on CO
2emissions directly.[6]
Opposition to increased environmental regulation such as carbon taxes often centres on concerns that firms might relocate and/or people might lose their jobs.[10] It has been argued[, however, that carbon taxes are more efficient than direct regulation and may even lead to higher employment (see footnotes).[10
A number of countries have implemented carbon taxes or energy taxes that are related to carbon content.[10] Most environmentally related taxes with implications for greenhouse gas emissions in OECD countries are levied on energy products and motor vehicles, rather than on CO
2emissions directly.[6]
Opposition to increased environmental regulation such as carbon taxes often centres on concerns that firms might relocate and/or people might lose their jobs.[10] It has been argued[, however, that carbon taxes are more efficient than direct regulation and may even lead to higher employment (see footnotes).[10
Do you hate poor people? You actually think that the companies will take the tax hit? Blahahahahaha. Wow! You are gullible! You do not think the companies will shift the cost to consumers? It will be a tax on consumers disproportionately hurting low income families. The companies aren't going to pay. They will just increase the price of theri products.
Carbon taxes offer to make Al Gore very rich. Why do you think he is pushing for it so hard?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybe...g-a-killing-on-anti-carbon-investment-hype/2/
Regardless, it is all irrelevant. Again, until some company or companies create a technology that is at least as efficient and cost approx. the same as fossil fuel, we will be using primarily fossil fuel regardless of how much libtards rant about GW.
You are irrelevant.
Al-Gore's Jihad
Snow record only ‘Inconvenient
Truth’ we need, Al Gore
Boston Herald, by Howie Carr Original Article
3/18/2015 5:23:15 AM
We won! We won! “We” just broke the record for the most snow ever in one winter, 108.6 inches. And in an amazing coincidence, Al Gore, the pied piper of global warming, is responding to the unprecedented snowfalls and low temperatures. He has issued a fatwa, calling for a PC jihad against the heathens who actually believe what they see, rather than what they are told by fake scientists waving made-up “hockey-stick” graphics. Gore is quoted in the Chicago Tribune as demanding that the true believers “punish climate-change deniers, saying politicians should pay a price for rejecting ‘accepted science.’”
Snow record only ‘Inconvenient
Truth’ we need, Al Gore
Boston Herald, by Howie Carr Original Article
3/18/2015 5:23:15 AM
We won! We won! “We” just broke the record for the most snow ever in one winter, 108.6 inches. And in an amazing coincidence, Al Gore, the pied piper of global warming, is responding to the unprecedented snowfalls and low temperatures. He has issued a fatwa, calling for a PC jihad against the heathens who actually believe what they see, rather than what they are told by fake scientists waving made-up “hockey-stick” graphics. Gore is quoted in the Chicago Tribune as demanding that the true believers “punish climate-change deniers, saying politicians should pay a price for rejecting ‘accepted science.’”
“punish climate-change deniers, saying politicians should pay a price for rejecting ‘accepted science.’”
bingo He's exactly right. As usual.
The hockey stick graph has been proven multiple times over. It is not "made up"
What a piece of shit article of lies.
bingo He's exactly right. As usual.
The hockey stick graph has been proven multiple times over. It is not "made up"
What a piece of shit article of lies.
Gore is pushing for a carbon tax because it is the right thing to do. It's not to make money. You are extremely deluded.
He is just talking his book. He is just like Bill Ackman. Heavily invest in a company or sector then run around the country giving presentations on the investment thesis. Get sheeple like yourself to believe in the propaganda and have you guys sell it for him for free. Blahahahaha
Punishing climate-change deniers will do nothing!!!
The only way to get the world off of fossil fuel is an alternative energy that is as efficient and cost approx. the same as fossil fuel. Period. A tax scheme that will just make Al Gore a billionaire will not replace fossil fuel. The good news is that an alternative energy that is as efficient and cost approx. the same as fossil fuel is most likely in our future. Just not yesterday. I say yesterday because there is a possibility albeit small that it is announced later today.
Again, you are irrelevant. Only an alternative energy will cause the world to stop using fossil fuel. A tax scheme to further fleece low income families will not get the world off of fossil fuel.